Jump to content

Talk:Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Salimfadhley (talk | contribs) at 23:14, 23 May 2004. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

The difficulty of NPOV in these troubling times

This is quite a fair write-up so far. I suggest people pissed off with ADTI's work should not affect the bias of this article but link to this article. - SalimFadhley

I was gritting my teeth so hard I nearly broke a filling. I have taken care to link to all studies I could find linked on their appallingly-designed website or through Google, not just the open source ones. - David Gerard 20:46, May 20, 2004 (UTC)

Really good work in putting together a portfolio, all we need to do is get enough people to link to this page using the words "Alexis de Tocqueville Institution", and this will be the top search result on Google. --Salimfadhley 00:44, 21 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Positive press articles?

Are there any positive press articles on AdTI of any quality, i.e. that aren't press release reprints? - David Gerard 21:23, May 21, 2004 (UTC)

  • No, I used to work in a related industry and believe me, the idea is to take advantage of the hackish tendencies of most IT journalists. They will tend to do the bare minimum of research, merely paraphrasing an agency press-release. If journalists paused to investigate what they are writing then the whole ADTI business model would collapse. --Salimfadhley 11:46, 23 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Funding, Quotations

I seem to remember a great quote from Ken Browne along the lines of 'We will take money from anybody', contrasted with his claims not to be anybody's PR shill (the 2nd one is at the bottom of the ZD net article). Do you think this ought to go into a quotations section? --Salimfadhley 11:51, 23 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly in the funding section. Keeping that understated and factual will be a test of one's NPOV abilities ;-) - David Gerard 11:53, May 23, 2004 (UTC)
Were you able to find the article about ATDI accepting money from anybody? That (if a genuine quotation) is a clear and unambiguous statement of funding policy? --Salimfadhley 19:29, 23 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Not yet. I might have a look this evening or tomorrow - David Gerard 20:53, May 23, 2004 (UTC)
No luck. I did manage to find a pile of other articles on AdTI, as you'll see from the recent additions (which are all worth a read). Hard part is finding articles on them not relating to Linux/Open Source.
I also found this: [1] a short bio he wrote for the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy. I'm sure it can be used for something - David Gerard 22:46, May 23, 2004 (UTC)
Once again, we owe Groklaw for the amazing quotes DB. Kenneth Brown Quotes]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution&oldid=3707511"